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Scott, Jessica A.; Henner, Jonathan – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Signing systems that attempted to represent spoken language via manual signs -- some invented, and some borrowed from natural sign languages -- have historically been used in classrooms with deaf children. However, despite decades of research and use of these systems in the classroom, there is little evidence supporting their educational…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods
Brum, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The effects of deafblindness are much greater than simply combining the effects of the individual's vision loss with the effects of their hearing loss, because these senses strongly support one another (Silberman, Bruce, & Nelson, 2004). Even though most individuals have some residual vision and hearing, deafblindness limits access to the…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Oral Reading, Teacher Attitudes
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Erlenkamp, Sonja; Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2010
This paper presents findings from a study on the use of sign supported Norwegian (SSN) in two individuals with Cri du chat syndrome (CCS). The study gives a first account of some selected aspects of production and intelligibility of SSN in CCS. Possible deviance in manual parameters, in particular inter- and/or intra-subject variation in the use…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Language Acquisition, Sign Language, Norwegian